To be openly conservative in public these days is to be a target. If you are not attacked directly you may be subjected to verbal or physical provocations designed to get you to react inapproriately so as to make YOU the aggressor. It may cost you your job, reputation, privacy, assets or
freedom. Remember that in any of these interactions the default assumption is that you are quilty.
To be openly conservative in public these days is to be a target. If you are not attacked directly you may be subjected to verbal or physical provocations designed to get you to react inapproriately so as to make YOU the aggressor. It may cost you your job, reputation, privacy, assets or
freedom. Remember that in any of these interactions the default assumption is that you are quilty.
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Each of us is, by default, proxy for all of us.
This is our equivalent of “the talk” black parents feel compelled to deliver to their children.
I was 8 years old in 1951. My parents had “the talk” with me:
“Remember, when you are out in public and do anything at all, people will not say ‘That little girl with the dark hair did something. They will say ‘That Jewish girl did it.’ Everything you say or do reflects upon all Jews.”
I grew up with people who escaped the Warsaw ghetto. I was 3 months old when my father went to war and 3 years old when he returned. My best friend’s father was killed in that war and the only thing her granny ever said to me, more than once, was “When are you going to go live in Israel?”
I had an obsession with the camps when I was about 14 (1957). Today, I believe it was a form of PTSD by proxy. I experienced a fair amount of prejudice and hate in the 1950s in central Illinois. In high school, we Jewish kids had our own place in morning study hall. We called it The Gaza Strip because we were surrounded on three sides by enemies.
These times will leave a lasting mark on the young, white conservative children in America. They will lose/have lost a form of American innocence by being the objects of hate and libel.This will likely push some of them to excel even beyond the level they reach today. Others will *assimilate* by becoming SJWs and wokescolds. Some will just give up and become a future type of hippie. It is a form of death and rebirth for them all.
My heart just weeps.